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The grouping of subjects such as neuroscience and psychiatry with cheaper disciplines will lead to what critics say is a failure to fairly fund mental health research

Idea is mooted at EuroScience Open Forum but event is also warned that privileging researchers could be seen as ‘elitist’

Former education secretary under Thatcher considers how his new work on book burning relates to current debate on censorship

Few academic department heads receive any formal leadership training when they step up into middle management, a study says

Study finds that on average graduates in the country earn more than non-graduates 

Statement signed by 30 scholarly organisations condemns continued attack on academic freedom

Scholar says overseas outposts cannot compete with universities abroad without delivering a ‘superior’ service

Researchers have used an art competition to model what happens during peer review, and their work raises further questions over its effectiveness

V-c says presence on campus of Danish journalist who commissioned Muhammad cartoons could 'retard rather than advance academic freedom'. Elizabeth Redden reports

New government is opening up to the wider world, but much remains to be done, says British Council country director

Call for universities to stamp out 'last acceptable' form of discrimination

YouthSight poll also finds that nearly one in five student Brexit supporters would now change their vote

Unprecedented ’cleansing’ of academia may force many leading minds to leave the country, scholar warns

Presidents' associations issue statement in wake of Brexit vote

Three institutions agree to changes over fees, course costs and progression

University College will also offer 'bridging programme' to help undergraduates develop academic skills

Widening participation by the group ‘hugely held back’ by lack of agreed statistical category, conference hears

Academics explore how the seemingly sedate game of housey-housey has attracted many different kinds of government intervention

Maximum fees raised in line with inflation for year one of teaching excellence framework

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago

Social science scholars are attempting to produce ‘impossible results’ due to demands from journal editors, finds study

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Recent attempts to get round US gun lobby’s blocking of federal funds for gun violence research could be making an impact. Jon Marcus reports

Thinktank proposes to fund Corbyn goal of scrapping fees by National Insurance education accounts

Liverpool’s Michael Dougan on ‘poisonous’ anti-expert rhetoric and the UK’s EEA deal chances

The Home Office has also released data showing experiments on animals across the country have broadly flatlined since 2013

Hundreds of deans have been ordered to resign while academics have been told not to travel abroad for work in the wake of the failed coup

The ‘relatively modest’ research reputations of some senior US university leaders make their pay ‘grotesquely unmerited’, claims author of report

Unlike the rest of the EU budget, research funding disproportionately flows to rich members. But there are pressures for this to change

New education secretary praises moves to open up sector to new providers, but majority allowing bill to next stage is only 36

Lord Stern's warning adds to concerns about a brain drain from British universities in the wake of the referendum result

Greater financial uncertainty caused by the EU referendum result should lead to a rethink of proposed reforms, says Labour

Former universities minister calls for creation of academic council to advise ministers on decision making

Sector experts debate whether continental outposts would help to mitigate any decline in student recruitment

'Arguments premised on consumerism are not likely to influence me' insists academic after students suggest staff should not express personal opinions

Scrapping of BIS prompts warnings that universities may lose influence in Whitehall

Effectiveness and impact of one-day strikes targeted at university graduation and open days also questioned by expert and employers

Some believe the momentous referendum result may harm the UK’s ability to compete for the world’s best PhD students

Johnson survives Theresa May’s reshuffle

Shift may be evidence that researchers feel they are increasingly judged on citations and journal impact factors

Concerns raised over splitting research and universities, while Theresa May’s focus on ‘industrial strategy’ prompts questions

Sector aims for stronger collaboration with schools in new department

Thinktank advises universities to take advantage of UK’s ‘instability’ after EU referendum

Research league calls for funding decision makers to see UK partners as desirable

Former UN secretary general insists that scholars have to make politicians listen in order to influence change

Lack of progression may help to explain BME under-representation in academic workforce

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Some scholars claim plans are more about improving staff visibility to students than brightening corridors

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

No staff will be lost, says Durham vice-chancellor

New exhibition celebrates the achievements of 12 female academics at the University of Sussex through photographic portraits inspired by Rembrandt

Academics gave ghostwritten papers good marks in Australian study

Two recipients of a new initiative at Portsmouth Business School describe their experience of joining a UK university

Offa concerned that institutions lack evidence for effectiveness of outlay on bursaries and fee waivers

Jeremy Corbyn urged to investigate claims of abuse much more actively and openly

David Feldman describes his experiences of being ‘misrepresented in the public sphere’

Plans to allow graduates of France’s most elite higher education institutions to claim the title of PhD without taking a viva have enraged some Gallic scholars

University of Hertfordshire modules are marking how well classmates encourage each other to participate

Vice-chancellors argue that exercise should not go beyond pilot stage because of ‘significant instability’